Thursday, April 21, 2011

Needs a Hug Podcast Episode 5

Once a week Kaziah and Belthal take you through the trials and tribulations of the Needs a Hug guild on Ravenholdt US. Weekly guild news, World of Warcraft news ,commentary and special guests bring the unique flavor and insanity of the Needs a Hug guildies to the airwaves.


WEEK IN WARCRAFT



WOW NEWS


Warlocks get Gender Choice for there Demons
http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/04/14/warlocks-getting-male-and-female-versions-of-all-demons/


Blizcon Tickets going on sale May 21st and 25th
http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/04/12/blizzcon-2011-tickets-on-sale-may-21st-and-25th/




GUILD NEWS


New 85’s
Two new level 85’s this week looks like both Rheya and Manamoni made it to the level cap, gratz guys and now you can chase the Epic Loots


Epic Loots!
Ya. On Wed we downed Argaloth and stole the good stuff that he was hiding under his prison issue mattress. As always it seems to be nothing but PvP gear but I will tell you the 362 gear is still nice even if it looses some stats to resilience. This week we have had two lucky winners. The Vicious Gladiator's Silk Trousers.went to Pemmoria and Drwhat landed the Vicious Gladiator's Band of Cruelty. Grats Guys!


New Voice Server for Needs a Hug
Needs a Hug has a new voice server. We have moved from vent to Mumble


QUESTIONS
First question we have today is from Mooktar who has sent us in an a voice call about Blizzards new game Titan!

blizzard leaked product road map
http://8th-circuit.com/sites/default/files/blizzard-product-slate-leaked_69312_screen.jpg


Blunderbus writes:

The guild is doing a great job at helping the 'greener' members get to the point where we can raid, and making sure we feel loved and accepted when we join in, any ideas on ways to make it even better? Perhaps we can set up formal gear and training nights to work on gearing our alts, and helping the green members get what they need to join in the higher level content, learn the dungeons so they can handle PUGS etc?

Thanks for making the podcast guys, it makes my long weekly trip to the office go much faster!

The Blunder Bus



Thanks for the email Blunderbus, we have looked at the idea of a training night for a while. The reason that we haven’t done something about it is two fold. One we dont have a officer that is willing to take on the job, unless you are volunteering, the other thing is that we have 3 nights of guild events going on currently wed,fri,sun and we dident want to burn people out thinking that they had to come to all the events. Now if we did have someone who wanted to step up to orginize it we would definatly try it out so if anyone out there is looking for a way to get more involved with the guild and think this might be fun let me know and I we can talk.




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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Needs a Hug Podcast episode 4

Once a week Kaziah and Belthal take you through the trials and tribulations of the Needs a Hug guild on Ravenholdt US. Weekly guild news, World of Warcraft news ,commentary and special guests bring the unique flavor and insanity of the Needs a Hug guildies to the airwaves.

WEEK IN WARCRAFT
Our week in World of Warcraft

WOW NEWS
Patch 4.1 stuff
Guild chat on the iPhone

Call to arms in the dungeon finder

wailing caverns shortened
http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/04/07/patch-4-1-new-wailing-caverns-layout-unveiled/

New WoW Jerseys and Hawaiian shirts
http://www.swagdog.com/armoryinterface.aspx


From WOW Insider
http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/04/07/patch-4-1-ptr-new-pve-to-pvp-currency-conversion/


Patch 4.1 PTR: New PvE-to-PvP currency conversion
by Matthew Rossi

If you've seen the patch 4.1 PTR patch notes recently, one thing will probably jump out at you immediately. Namely, you can now buy honor points for justice points and vice versa, and you can also buy conquest points for valor points.
Updated 4.1 patch notes for April 7, 2011
General
Honor is now purchasable from the Justice Commodities Vendor at 250 Honor per 375 Justice.
Justice is now purchasable from the Honor Commodities Vendor at 250 Justice per 375 Honor.
Conquest is now purchasable from the Valor vendor at 250 Conquest per 250 Valor.



This is huge for people who have found themselves capped on one or another of these currencies for a while now. I know for myself, I've ended up stockpiling heirlooms for characters I may or may not ever level just to keep below the JP cap. Now I can get serious about those last few PvP items I've been holding off picking up. I am surprised to see a valor-to-conquest conversion but not a conquest-to-valor one -- seems somewhat unfair, as it gives PvE players with access to a lot of valor points a way to jump into PvP but gives no such return for PvP players who want to get a leg up in PvE.

Keeping in mind it's the PTR and is always subject to change, of course, this should be a more interesting solution to point capping than we've seen before with trade goods and suchlike.


GUILD NEWS
Achivements:
That’s a lot of Bait - Seafood Magnofique!
Kill Squad! - 100K kills
Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker - Aeromoni
Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnoros - Darvina
Level 20


Newest Level 85
Rakzar

Special Guest
Gutterball



QUESTIONS
Seraphima Writes:
As a young tank I’m wondering if you have any hints for bear tanking or druid leveling so I can finish up my last 15 levels?

DrWhat writes:
With the new Call to Arms coming out what do you think the effect will be on random dungeons?


Say It, Don't Spray It

Kaziah: Ok, finish this sentence. Fe Fi Fo Fum, I...
Mooktar: ... instead of Magmaw, lets fight his mum
Wieland: ...want to kick some alliance bum?
Seraphimia: sell the blood of a Shammy, mon



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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Needs a Hug Podcast episode 3

Once a week Kaziah and Belthal take you through the trials and tribulations of the Needs a Hug guild on Ravenholdt US. Weekly guild news, World of Warcraft news ,commentary and special guests bring the unique flavor and insanity of the Needs a Hug guildies to the airwaves.



WOW NEWS


Patch 4.1: Guild Challenges
   http://www.facebook.com/notes/warcraft/patch-41-guild-challenges/10150176046835874

One of the newest things to come out are the guild challenges. These seem to be a replacement for the daily quests in Dalaran. When you complete the daily guild challenge the guild will get guild XP and gold that goes right into the guild bank. This XP is over and above the guild list.

Patch 4.1: Account bound Heirlooms

We just posted about the new heirlooms based on tier 1 armor discovered on the patch 4.1 PTR, but apparently there's even bigger news! Wowhead has discovered that as of 4.1, all heirloom items (including the newly added ones) are labeled as "Binds to Battle.net Account," an entirely different label than "Binds to Account."

Next we have some Fake news from blizzard.

Fake patch notes

http://www.facebook.com/notes/warcraft/patch-4111-preview/10150178289705874

Best one for me cause I cant spell worth a damn
Due to continual misspellings of the “rogue” class, we have officially changed the name to the easier to type “rouge.”

babble about patch notes

GUILD NEWS

New 85’s in the last week.

Headbasher




Guild Progression

The Guild is closing in on Guild level 20 which opens up the perk Happy Hour which gives us a 50% bonus on the guild cauldrons. This will be great as soon as we start making guild cauldrens. The problem of course is that first we need to make 10,000 Cata flasks.
I am really excited about level 21 which gives us Have group will travel which allows a group summon of everone who is in the group or raid to your location.




QUESTIONS

Mooktar writes:

Love writes:





difference between NAH raids and general dungeons
NAH Raid phylosiphye
Bad dungeon luck







Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Needs a Hug Episode 2.5 Special Episode

A special episode with hardcore raider Aideth. He talks about his time in Japanese MMO Final Fantasy XI and about hardcore raiding in WOW.


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